Affliction is a good man's shining time.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
'T is impious in a good man to be sad.
A God alone can comprehend a God.
A God all mercy is a God unjust.